New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1926. First edition. 8vo, 89pp; patterned linen backed in black cloth gilt. Van Doren's second collection of poems, exceptionally uncommon, especially so in dust jacket. More about 7 P.M.; & Other Poems
New York: Horace Liveright, (1928). First edition. 8vo, 319pp, pictorial endpapers; black cloth. Uncommon novel in the ocean liner genre by Vorse, an editor of The Masses and author of a number of left-leaning books sympathetic to the labor movement, including the Rideout novel Strike. A nice copy of this... More about Second Cabin
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First American edition. 8vo, 350pp; green cloth. Sudermann's last novel, published here posthumously, appeared in German as Purzelchen. Bold dust jacket art by "Sugar." More about The Dance of Youth; Translated by Eden & Cedar Paul
New York: Horace Liveright, 1930. First edition. 8vo, 339pp with map inserted at rear; black cloth. Popular edition derived from earlier and more extensive publications of Musil's travels, highly uncommon in dust jacket. The author, a Czech-born theologian and explorer, was a cousin of the novelist Robert Musil. More about In the Arabian Desert.; Arranged for Publication by Katherine McGiffert Wright. Illustrated
New York: Horace Liveright, 1929. First edition. 8vo, 281pp, illustrated; gray cloth pictorially stamped in black and gilt. An attractive book, featuring fine jacket art by "Sugar." More about The Untold Story:; The Life of Isadora Duncan 1921-1927
New York: Horace Liveright, (1930). First edition. 8vo, 240pp; orange cloth. Perelman's second book and Reynolds's first. Quentin Reynolds would go on to a distinguished journalistic career. Uncommon. More about Parlor, Bedlam and Bath
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). Third Printing. 8vo, 239pp; original green plush cloth, printed in red on the spine and embossed with hearts on the covers. Perelman's first book proved more in demand than anticipated by Liveright and went through three printings in the single month of August, 1929. This... More about Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge
New York: Horace Liveright, (1929). Second Printing. 8vo, 239pp; original silver embossed cloth, stamped in red on the spine. Perelman's first book. More about Dawn Ginsbergh's Revenge
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1924). First American edition. 8vo, 414pp, illustrated; maroon cloth. Kammerer's controversial work, offering proof of Lamarck's notion that acquired physical characteristics could be genetically inherited, won the Austrian biologist instant fame as the 'new Darwin.' When confronted with evidence that he had faked his results... More about The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.; Translated by A. Paul Maerker-Branden
London: George Allen & Unwin, (1960). First edition. 493pp with 32pp of photographic stills in rear; cloth. More about Kino; A History of the Russian and Soviet Film
New York: A.A. Wyn, n.d. (1952). First American edition. 8vo, 533pp; black cloth. Illustrated biography of the great Russian filmmaker, with a foreword by Brooks Atkinson. More about Sergei M. Eisenstein; A Biography
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. First edition. 8vo, 361pp, illustrated; black cloth, stamped in silver. A handsome copy of Kracauer's classic study. More about From Caligari to Hitler:; A Psychological History of the German Film
New York: Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, (1930). First American edition. 8vo, 362pp, illustrated; black cloth. A presentable copy of this early history of film, illustrated throughout with photographic stills. The dust jacket features a montage of film strips designed by the author; the endpapers are a dizzying op-art pattern... More about The Film Till Now; A Survey of the Cinema
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(Hollywood): Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1935. 4to, 13pp multilith musical score including lyrics, with MGM stamps; accompanied by four typed letters signed by Harry Ruby, with one envelope. Original rehearsal score for this song, written for Groucho Marx's character in the Marx Brothers' 1935 classic film "A Day at the Races." The printed... More about "Doctor Quackenbush"; [sic] 'A Day at the Races'
1971. Authors’ archive of working scripts as follows: 162pp typescript in black spring-binder, with inserts in photocopy; pagination somewhat jumbled. Scattered holograph revisions; 158pp typescript in black spring-binder, with “Return to J.J. Bologna 320 West End Ave, NYC NY Tel. 799-4775” on title leaf and extensive holograph revisions throughout; 122pp..... More about Made for Each Other
N.P. N.p, January 27, 1982. 4to, 138pp photocopy in stiff report binder with metal clip, handwritten cover label. On the title page: “1 – Original 1st version to Burt Reynolds Lulu is American born. Best version (but check the cuts from final version that was never sent)” The reference to..... More about Love and Success; A Screenplay
(Los Angeles): MGM, 1974. 4to, 113pp mimeograph in MGM Television wrappers, bound with three brass fasteners and with clear plastic overlay. Revised shooting script, 10/15/74. Small dialogue revision in pencil. Taylor and Bologna co-starred in the TV movie about the marriage between a sports reporter and an international journalist at... More about Woman of the Year
121pp photocopy, in plain card wrappers, titled by hand and bound with a metal binder clasp, secured on rear wrapper with bandaids. Co-star Joseph Bologna’s copy, with “Mr. Joe Bologna” on front in pencil and with his handwritten insertions of direction notes and dialogue alterations scattered throughout. Bologna and Michael..... More about Blame It On Rio; Revised March 8, 1983: Final Revised Script. Producer/Director Stanley Donen
New York: Liveright, Inc., 1932. First edition. Small 8vo, 96pp; salmon cloth stamped in black. Lighthearted anecdotes by one of the movie industry's most versatile figures. Garnett's career as a screenwriter started in the earliest days of American cinema with Mack Sennett, Hal Roach, and Laurel & Hardy. He went... More about Tall Tales from Hollywood
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927. First edition. 8vo, 214pp; red cloth. Psychological origins of the war. More about Alias Uncle Shylock; A Tragi-Comedy of the Two Dromios, Fear Avarice
New York: Boni and Liveright, (1923). First edition. 8vo, 256pp, illustrated; natural linen. Early novel by Hecht. More about The Florentine Dagger; A Novel for Amateur Detectives
New York: Boni and Liveright, 1927. First American edition. 8vo, 148pp; blue cloth. A satirical look at London's bohemian culture by a member of the Bloomsbury circle. More about Bed and Breakfast.; With Fifty-Five Illustrations by Pearl Binder
New York: Horace Liveright, (1931). First edition. 8vo, 154pp; blue cloth. Humorous sketches, some of which originally appeared in The New Yorker. More about How To Tell Your Friends from the Apes.; Pictures by Jacks
New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1935. 8vo, 263pp; red cloth. A nice copy of the Bonibooks edition. More about Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat; . . . Illustrated by Herbert Johnson
New York: Horace Liveright, 1931. First American edition. 8vo, 340pp; black cloth. A handsome copy of the South African writer's novel, seldom encountered in dust jacket. More about The Sons of Mrs. Aab